The members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, According to the sources Familiar with their whereabouts and videos taken from them in a training installation of the Army Reserve in a suburb of Chicago.
The Texas National Guard boarded a military plane on Monday afternoon in Texas, since state leaders and the city in Illinois were holding a press conference asking them to stay away from Chicago.
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, shared on Monday a Photo on social networks Showing what he called the “elite” of the State National Guard addressing a plane, but did not say where they were heading.
“Illinois will not allow the Trump administration to continue in its authoritarian march without resisting,” said Illinois governor JB Pritzker. “We will use each lever at our disposal to stop this taking of power because military troops should not be used against US communities.”
Members of the Texas National Guard are observed, according to sources and videos taken by the ABC Chicago WLS station, on October 7, 2025, at the Army Reserve Training Center in a suburb of the Southwest Chicago.
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The members of the Texas National Guard were recorded on video by the ABC Chicago WLS station on Tuesday in the center of the US Army Reserve. UU. In Elwood, Illinois, about 50 miles southwest Chicago.
Among the military officers who WLS recorded a video in the center of the Army Reserve on Tuesday was Tuesday of two stars, General Niave Knell, the deputy general director of the US Army. UU.
The main 2 -star General Niave Knell, deputy director of the US Army, on October 7, 2025, at the Training Center of the Army Reserve in a Southwest Chicago suburb, is observed.
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Pritzker said at a press conference on Monday that during the weekend, he asked Abbott “to immediately withdraw his support for this decision” to send the members of the Texas National Guard to Chicago.
The earlier Tuesday, Abbott He had responded For Pritzker on social networks, saying: “I completely authorized the president to call 400 members of the Texas National Guard to guarantee the safety of federal officials.”
During a press conference on Tuesday morning, the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, said he had not received early information about the whereabouts of the Texas National Guard troops.
“We have not heard directly, of course, from the president or its administration and my expectation is that, regardless of what this administration is doing, I will continue firmly and commit to protecting the rights and courtesy of our nation and will begin here in Chicago,” said Johnson.
“We know that, like what we have seen in other parts of the country, there is a process that the National Guard is going through before they are really released in the streets of Chicago or anywhere,” Johnson added.
Johnson said what he does know is that the deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago is “illegal, unconstitutional, is dangerous, is wrong.”
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit on Monday that sought to block the federalization and deployment of the National Guard.
The fundamental principle that separates the military from domestic affairs is “in danger”, since Trump seeks to deploy the National Guard for Cities from all over the country, the lawyers of Illinois and Chicago wrote in the lawsuit.
A security guard monitors the street outside an immigration and customs processing center (ICE) on Broadview, Illinois, on September 10, 2025.
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“Let me be clear, Donald Trump is using the members of our service as political accessories and as pawns in their illegal effort to militarize the cities of our nation,” said Pritzker during a press conference.
To support his point, Pritzker played a video of an ice raid made last week in an apartments complex in the Chicago South Shore neighborhood, which according to him was filmed by federal authorities with high -definition cameras for social networks. He said it was the same video as the Secretary of the United States National Security Department, Kristi Noem, published on social networks on Saturday.
“Black Hawk military helicopters brought and more than 100 full tactical team agents,” Pritzker said.
He added: “On the night floor and apparently for the cameras, the armed federal agents emerged from the Black Hawk helicopters, rapting to the roof of that apartment building.”
During a hearing of the Senate Judicial Committee on Tuesday, the Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked about the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and how they would help improve security in the city.
“I am having a real fight at this time with the National Guard that unfolds and masking the abject failure of the leaders at the state and local level,” said Senator Thom Tillis, Rn.C., to Bondi, referring to an alleged excessive crime in Chicago.
“Are we masking an underlying problem that will return at the time we are going?” Tillis asked Bondi. “I am talking about that, not the protection of federal buildings and the application of federal law, but almost the feeling that they have become an arm of the application of the local law. I do not consider that this is a better practice. Nor does it seem that you.”
“Seeing what is happening in Chicago, they need the National Guard. Our ICE members need the National Guard to protect national buildings,” Bondi replied.
But the officials of the city of Chicago have insisted that there is no emergence of crime in the city to justify the deployment of the National Guard. Chicago police crimes statistics Show that homicides in the city have dropped 28% this year compared to the first nine months of 2024, and the number of shooting incidents has dropped 35%.
Pritzker claimed that the Trump administration is following a play book to “cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mafia when shooting gas granules and tear gas boats.
Speaking to journalists at the Oval office on Monday afternoon, Trump said he still did not see the need to use the insurrection law, but “if he had to promulgate it, he would do so, if the people were killed and that the courts were retaining us, or the governors or the mayors retained us.”
